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Continuing Education Opportunities for
Registered Dietitians

For Continuing Education and Portfolio Information:  www.cdrnet.org

For Kansas Licensure: http://www.kdheks.gov/hoc/diet.html
On-Line License Verification: www.kdhehealthlicense.org
Contact Person: Brenda Kroll
Licensing Administrator
Health Occupations Credentialing
1000 SW Jackson, Ste 200
Topeka KS 66612-1365
Phone: 785-296-0061
Fax: 785-296-3075
bkroll@kdhe.state.ks.us

For Continuing Education Opportunities through ADA:
www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/education.html

For Listen and Learn Teleseminars and Webinars at various sites throughout the state:
Watch for more information on the KDA listserv.
KDA will offer at least one site in the state for the following Listen and Learn Teleseminars. To volunteer to be a site host or to register as a participant, Jennifer C. Bowell, jen_heitmann@yahoo.com.

Free CEU opportunity to KDA members and non-members!!!!

KDA Public Policy Workshop – Let your Voice Be Heard!!!

Get up to date on all the latest health related bills in legislation; learn how to communicate with your local congressional leader(s); AND spend the afternoon visiting with legislators at the Kansas State Capitol.

WHEN: Friday, February 22, 2008
9 am to 3pm
WHERE: Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
Room TBA

3-4 CEU’s have been applied for

Please RSVP by February 15, 2008
To Charlotte Buchanan
(316) 305-6763
or via email: buchrd@cox.net

Teleseminars and Webinars Offered in Kansas

Navigating the Botanical Maze with Creative Counseling Strategies for Chronic Kidney Disease

The Kansas Dietetic Association is pleased to present another live, interactive teleseminar!

Thursday, March 6, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Central)
Do you need creative and proven counseling strategies for your patients with chronic kidney disease to utilize for intervention and education about botanical medicines? Would you like to increase the likelihood that patients will share important information about botanical medicines with you? This teleseminar will help you empower yourself and your clients/patients about botanical medicines with effective counseling strategies.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review common issues and key information related to botanical medicine use in chronic kidney disease
  • List potential concerns and risks of botanical medicine use
  • Identify practical strategies for guiding and empowering clients/patients with regard to botanical medicines
  • Describe the theories and principles of motivational interviewing
  • Use the spirit and key skills of motivational interviewing to elicit information from clients about botanical medicines
  • Apply botanical knowledge and counseling strategies to a case study

Presenters:
Catherine M. Goeddeke-Merickel, MS, RD, Clinical Consultant and Renal Nutrition Forum Managing Editor and Website Editor, Minneapolis, MN
Dana R. Sturtevant, MS, RD, Private practice, Portland, OR

Note: The views expressed by the speakers are their own and do not necessarily represent the views or any position of the ADA. Speakers are required to disclose personal and professional interests that could potentially affect their research and/or give the appearance of a conflict of interest.

CPE Level 2
Suggested Learning Need Codes:  2010, 5340, 6020, and 6070

Early Bird Registration Fees through Monday, February 25

Nutritional Support for the Older Adult

The Kansas Dietetic Association is pleased to present another live, interactive teleseminar!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Central)

 Learning Objectives

  • Describe when to use oral and enteral nutrition support in the older adult,
  • Recognize potential problems that occur in the older adult receiving enteral feeding,
  • State therapeutic measures that must be taken when certain clinical conditions exist,
  • Discuss the various feeding methods — bolus, continuous, nocturnal,
  • Identify ethical questions concerning tube feeding at end-of-life.

Presenters
Kathleen C. Niedert, MBA, RD, CSG, FADA, Director of Clinical Nutrition and Dining Services, Western Home Communities; Hudson, Iowa
Lynn Carpenter Moore, RD, Consultant Dietitian and Owner, Nutrition Systems/Riverland Group; Port Gibson, Mississippi

Note: The views expressed by the speakers are their own and do not necessarily represent the views or any position of the ADA. Speakers are required to disclose personal and professional interests that could potentially affect their research and/or give the appearance of a conflict of interest.

CPE Level 2
Suggested Learning Need Codes:
5440, 5450, 3005, 5040, 5100, 5280, 5400, 5410, 5430, 7170, 710
0

Early Bird Registration Fees through Monday, March 17

XV International Congress of Dietetics
LOCATION: Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan,
DATE: September 8-11, 2008
THEME: Global Dietetic Linkage and Cooperation for Human Health

This international conference will be a great opportunity to meet fellow dietitians and nutrition experts from various counties and discuss nutrition issues (e.g. Breastfeeding, Obesity, school lunch systems, and nutrition education).

Also, there will be attractive activities to visit; a few of them are the school lunch systems, grocery tours, hospital systems, TV cooking programs, TV nutrition programs in addition to sight seeing.

For more information about the the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations and the conference and , please visit the following web-sites.

http://www.internationaldietetics.org/icd.asp

http://www.dietitian.or.jp/icd2008/

If you would like to attend this imporant international nutrition conference, please feel free to contact me at TakakoTagami@mchsi.com.

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